Jack Daniels says:
I never claimed that nobody offers completely anonymous accounts. I claimed that, to the best of my knowledge, nobody offers the "numbered accounts" that used to be popular in Switzerland.
Well, thats a very narrow statement, but even so...
Austria does offer "bearer share" accounts which are completely anonymous, but are quite different than the "numbered accounts" of old-time Switzerland. In a "numbered account", the owner uses a hand-written rendition of the account number as a signature. The hand-written number is compared against bank records to validate the authenticity of the owner. "Bearer share" accounts, which are available in Austria, are issued to the user with some sort of ceritificate of ownership. Anyone (the "bearer") who has possession of the certificate ("share") can withdraw money from the account. No signatures or hand-writen numbers are used to verify the owner.
If Austria does offer true numbered accounts, then I stand corrected.
Until recently at the very least, they offered accounts which used a "password" and an account number to perform transactions -- you did not require any physical certificate to access the account. Perry